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Who proposed sea floor spreading?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Harry Hess YAY;-)

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Process in which new sea floor forms as older sea floor is pulled apart?

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he proposed that mid-ocean ridges were areas where the floors of oceans had split apart


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